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09/21/2023
BOMs Away! Inside the Minds of Stakeholders: A Comprehensive Study of Bills of Materials for Software Systems
Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have emerged as tools to facilitate ...
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08/29/2023
ACER: An AST-based Call Graph Generator Framework
We introduce ACER, an AST-based call graph generator framework. ACER lev...
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08/13/2023
Helion: Enabling Natural Testing of Smart Homes
Prior work has developed numerous systems that test the security and saf...
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08/07/2023
Evaluating and Explaining Large Language Models for Code Using Syntactic Structures
Large Language Models (LLMs) for code are a family of high-parameter, tr...
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08/04/2023
MASC: A Tool for Mutation-Based Evaluation of Static Crypto-API Misuse Detectors
While software engineers are optimistically adopting crypto-API misuse d...
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07/30/2023
"False negative – that one is going to kill you": Understanding Industry Perspectives of Static Analysis based Security Testing
The demand for automated security analysis techniques, such as static an...
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01/03/2023
An Empirical Investigation into the Use of Image Captioning for Automated Software Documentation
Existing automated techniques for software documentation typically attem...
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01/03/2023
Translating Video Recordings of Complex Mobile App UI Gestures into Replayable Scenarios
Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture ...
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06/17/2022
Using Transfer Learning for Code-Related Tasks
Deep learning (DL) techniques have been used to support several code-rel...
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03/22/2022
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-time Understanding of Reproduction Steps
One of the primary mechanisms by which developers receive feedback about...
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01/18/2022
Using Pre-Trained Models to Boost Code Review Automation
Code review is a practice widely adopted in open source and industrial p...
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08/03/2021
An Empirical Study on the Usage of Transformer Models for Code Completion
Code completion aims at speeding up code writing by predicting the next ...
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07/15/2021
Why Crypto-detectors Fail: A Systematic Evaluation of Cryptographic Misuse Detection Techniques
The correct use of cryptography is central to ensuring data security in ...
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03/12/2021
An Empirical Study on the Usage of BERT Models for Code Completion
Code completion is one of the main features of modern Integrated Develop...
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02/13/2021
Systematic Mutation-based Evaluation of the Soundness of Security-focused Android Static Analysis Techniques
Mobile application security has been a major area of focus for security ...
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02/12/2021
μSE: Mutation-based Evaluation of Security-focused Static Analysis Tools for Android
This demo paper presents the technical details and usage scenarios of μS...
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02/03/2021
Studying the Usage of Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer to Support Code-Related Tasks
Deep learning (DL) techniques are gaining more and more attention in the...
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01/22/2021
It Takes Two to Tango: Combining Visual and Textual Information for Detecting Duplicate Video-Based Bug Reports
When a bug manifests in a user-facing application, it is likely to be ex...
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01/07/2021
Towards Automating Code Review Activities
Code reviews are popular in both industrial and open source projects. Th...
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09/17/2020
Deep Learning Software Engineering: State of Research and Future Directions
Given the current transformative potential of research that sits at the ...
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09/14/2020
A Systematic Literature Review on the Use of Deep Learning in Software Engineering Research
An increasingly popular set of techniques adopted by software engineerin...
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05/18/2020
Translating Video Recordings of Mobile App Usages into Replayable Scenarios
Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture ...
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05/18/2020
Improving the Effectiveness of Traceability Link Recovery using Hierarchical Bayesian Networks
Traceability is a fundamental component of the modern software developme...
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02/13/2020
On Learning Meaningful Assert Statements for Unit Test Cases
Software testing is an essential part of the software lifecycle andrequi...
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02/12/2020
DeepMutation: A Neural Mutation Tool
Mutation testing can be used to assess the fault-detection capabilities ...
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08/01/2019
Learning to Identify Security-Related Issues Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Software security is becoming a high priority for both large companies a...
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08/01/2019
Learning to Identify Security-RelatedIssues Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Software security is becoming a high priority for both large companies a...
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06/29/2019
Helion: Enabling a Natural Perspective of Home Automation
Security researchers have recently discovered significant security and s...
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06/17/2019
Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports
A major problem with user-written bug reports, indicated by developers a...
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01/25/2019
On Learning Meaningful Code Changes via Neural Machine Translation
Recent years have seen the rise of Deep Learning (DL) techniques applied...
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01/03/2019
Guigle: A GUI Search Engine for Android Apps
The process of developing a mobile application typically starts with the...
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12/27/2018
Learning How to Mutate Source Code from Bug-Fixes
Mutation testing has been widely accepted as an approach to guide test c...
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12/24/2018
SequenceR: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for End-to-End Program Repair
This paper presents a novel end-to-end approach to program repair based ...
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12/20/2018
An Empirical Study on Learning Bug-Fixing Patches in the Wild via Neural Machine Translation
Millions of open-source projects with numerous bug fixes are available i...
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12/04/2018
A Study of Data Store-based Home Automation
Home automation platforms provide a new level of convenience by enabling...
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07/25/2018
Detecting and Summarizing GUI Changes in Evolving Mobile Apps
Mobile applications have become a popular software development domain in...
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07/23/2018
Assessing Test Case Prioritization on Real Faults and Mutants
Test Case Prioritization (TCP) is an important component of regression t...
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07/18/2018
Overcoming Language Dichotomies: Toward Effective Program Comprehension for Mobile App Development
Mobile devices and platforms have become an established target for moder...
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06/26/2018
How Do Static and Dynamic Test Case Prioritization Techniques Perform on Modern Software Systems? An Extensive Study on GitHub Projects
Test Case Prioritization (TCP) is an increasingly important regression t...
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06/26/2018
Discovering Flaws in Security-Focused Static Analysis Tools for Android using Systematic Mutation
Mobile application security has been one of the major areas of security ...
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02/13/2018
MDroid+: A Mutation Testing Framework for Android
Mutation testing has shown great promise in assessing the effectiveness ...
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02/13/2018
Automated Reporting of GUI Design Violations for Mobile Apps
The inception of a mobile app often takes form of a mock-up of the Graph...
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02/07/2018
Machine Learning-Based Prototyping of Graphical User Interfaces for Mobile Apps
It is common practice for developers of user-facing software to transfor...
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01/19/2018
Mining Android App Usages for Generating Actionable GUI-based Execution Scenarios
GUI-based models extracted from Android app execution traces, events, or...
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01/19/2018
How do Developers Test Android Applications?
Enabling fully automated testing of mobile applications has recently bec...
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01/19/2018
Continuous, Evolutionary and Large-Scale: A New Perspective for Automated Mobile App Testing
Mobile app development involves a unique set of challenges including dev...
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01/18/2018
FUSION: A Tool for Facilitating and Augmenting Android Bug Reporting
As the popularity of mobile smart devices continues to climb the complex...
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01/18/2018
CrashScope: A Practical Tool for Automated Testing of Android Applications
Unique challenges arise when testing mobile applications due to their pr...
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01/18/2018
On-Device Bug Reporting for Android Applications
Bugs that surface in mobile applications can be difficult to reproduce a...
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01/18/2018